2 February, 2026

Pumarín, an Artistic Territory: Community Art, Popular Culture and Wellbeing from the Neighbourhood

The neighbourhood of Pumarín will host, between February and the end of May, a programme of community art, popular culture and wellbeing that proposes working with the territory through shared artistic creation, youth participation and collective care. The project, promoted by the Conseyu de la Mocedá (CMU), is supported by the Ministry of Health of the Principality of Asturias, the Oviedo City Council, the Asturian Youth Institute and the Oviedo European Capital of Culture 2031 bid.

Aimed at young people aged 16 to 30, the programme is conceived as a collective creative process, with no previous artistic training required.

The goal is to activate a Core Group—which has already received 20 applications—that will, over several months, research and work within the Pumarín neighbourhood, generating artistic proposals that engage with the realities, memories and desires of the area. The project is based on a clear idea: wellbeing is also built in community.

The programme will begin with two open public events:

  • Thursday, 12 February, 6:30 pm
    Workshop at the Branque Association (Pumarín) led by Dido Carrero, an artist and researcher whose practice connects contemporary art, science and cultural mediation.

  • Friday, 13 February, 6:00 pm
    Public session featuring a collective conversation with Dido Carrero, Elise Florentino, Julia Sousa and La Bambi, moderated by Candela Guerrero.
    The session will include a performance by the artist La Bambi, focused on the body, identity and the relationship with space.

That same Friday, 13 February, the registration period for this collective process will close definitively.

Between February and May, a monthly cycle of artistic laboratories will take place, accompanied by artists and mediators with diverse profiles. These sessions will explore languages such as muralism, audiovisual creation, performance and illustration, always through a participatory, place-based methodology with a strong focus on care.

The process will conclude at the end of May with a final event on 29 and 30 May, featuring artistic walks through the Pumarín neighbourhood. During these days, the works, interventions and actions developed throughout the programme will be presented as a return to the neighbourhood and a collective celebration.

This initiative reinforces one of the key pillars of Oviedo2031: culture as a tool for wellbeing, social cohesion and neighbourhood activation, placing young people and the community at the heart of the creative process.